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Víctor is an ex-researcher at the center for Micro-BioRobotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) with two engineering degrees (EE and CS) who dropped his academical career to focus on Erle Robotics. His passion is to build a robotics platform that can inspire the future in this field.

Following up with the PixHawk Fire Cape (PXF) series that was started a while ago, I'm happy to announce the PXFmini, an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi. This autopilot shield allows anyone to create ready-to-fly autopilots with support for Dronecode’s APM flight stack priced at only 69 €. The shield has…

Thanks for reaching out. PenguPilot looks really nice!It seems you guys are doing a great work :).

How about joining paths?. We should definitely push together a common project. BeaglePilot is building over ArduPilot and it is being pushed by some of the core-developers of ardupilot (with all their expertise) and companies such as 3DR, Google and BeagleBoard. According to what I've read it seems both PenguPilot and BeaglePilot share many key objectives. We are quite active at drones-discuss Google Group. Feel free to reach me, we can discuss further discuss this matter.

PenguPilot has the goal to be platform-independent through some hardware abstractions. We managed to fly vehicles based on the Rapsberry PI, the Gumstix Overo and the Odroid U3 board (Quad-core quad-rotor; yeah!).

Some of the device drivers (GPS, remote control, ADC's) are not part of the main controller process (autopilot) but use ZeroMQ / Protobuf / MessagePack for IPC, similar to ROS.

Although BeaglePilot has started with the BeagleBone, eventually we want to create a platform-independent Linux autopilot as well. It's true however that at the time we're focused on BeagleBone-based boards.